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Liu Qing was also a little flustered. First, there was a fire in the Forbidden Palace, and now, there was actually a human life.

It was not strange to say that a young eunuch had died in the palace. The head eunuch could easily find a reason to report his loss and hastily bury the matter.

Song Huanzong was famous for his germaphobia, once someone died in the imperial study, the Hall of Heartcare would likely be destroyed, and Liu Qing and the group of people under Liu Qing in charge of the Hall of Heartcare would also announce the end of their lives.

Liu Qing was already drenched in cold sweat. His legs felt like they were cramping as he rushed to the Heartrest Palace and rushed straight to the study room in the side hall.

When Liu Qing arrived, he saw that all the people in the room were his brothers and a few steward eunuchs, all of their faces ashen.

One of the guards came over and reported the situation to Liu Qing.

Both the paper lion and brush holder were jade artifacts gifted by's brother-in-law, the Prince Consort Ma Xiaowu Capital's Grand Commandant. They were made out of fine jade and had to be hired by the country's most outstanding jade carving master to spend half a year to complete them and were practically unique, deeply loved by Zhao Ji. Now, not only had they been stolen by others, the fanatic had even left a wall character to provoke him and killed a young eunuch.

Liu Qing knew that he would not be able to escape death, so he quickly tried to think of an excuse to escape from this crime. Suddenly, he noticed that Xie E's attire seemed to be different from that of an ordinary eunuch in the palace.

One of the eunuchs was called Zhang Xin, he also felt that although Xie E's clothes were the palace's attire, it was a little dark, and had used his courage to go close to Xie E's corpse and touch Xie E's waist, he did not have a identity card!

Every eunuch in the palace had their own proof of identity. The identity badge and clothing were the most basic, and by the time Xie E took off his belt and hung it on his waist, it had already been lost.

< p > "This person doesn't have a identity card! That's a fake thief! "

Zhang Xin's screams made everyone feel like they had grabbed onto a lifeline, and they all surrounded over.

The situation had suddenly turned around. The Liang Shan thieves had premeditated to impersonate the palace eunuchs, stolen the emperor's treasure, and were discovered by the guards while hiding and hiding. They had killed a thief on the spot.

In this way, although Liu Qing did not hope for the reward of killing a thief, at the very least, he could make up for it by doing so.

Furthermore, the reputation of the Liang Shan bandits that Song Jiang was leading was already shocking. Many generals in the imperial court were defeated by the Liang Shan, and Liu Qing, a small guard commander, did not have much of a role to play.

While everyone was celebrating, it was unknown which one of them managed to come up with a brilliant move. They wanted to shove the calligraphy written by the emperor, Zhao Ji, into Xie E's arms, so that the guards could contribute one more thing — — Protecting His Majesty the emperor, Mo Bao.

Liu Qing actually thought that it was not bad, no one would think that it was less than that, and nodded his head to signal the guard to put the scroll in Xie E's arms.

The guard took Xie E's body, and gradually saw Xie E's handsome face clearly, and immediately let out a burst of exclamations: "Ninth Prince?!"

Liu Qing secretly grumbled: How could this be?

Ninth Prince dressed up like any one, why did he have to act like a little eunuch!

And now, he was even killed by a Liang Shan thief in the emperor's study!

Liu Qing and the rest looked like they had all fallen into an icehouse. They looked at each other, at a loss of what to do.

Liu Qing did not give up, he extended his hand to check on Xie E's breath, and pinched the middle of Xie E's body.

"Commander Liu, stop trying. Look at all the blood on the ground, do you have any hope of surviving?" "In my opinion, we should all return to our own rooms, and before the emperor is aware of it, we should each make our own decisions. Everyone is also aware of the crimes committed by the Commander's Hall and the Privy Council."

Zhang Xin was obviously one of the people with the highest status, after hearing what Zhang Xin said, everyone's heart sank.

< p > "Wait!"

Liu Qing's voice trembled, "The prince isn't dead yet! Still alive! Fast! Hurry and call the imperial physician! "

Although no one dared to believe it, at least Liu Qing's words had given everyone a dose of extremely timely heart strengthening drug. Someone had rushed out long ago to call for an imperial physician.

Liu Qing ordered for more people to be sent to seal the Heartbreak Palace. Other than the Emperor himself, no one was allowed to enter, if Ninth Prince really died in the palace, it would not be as simple as just killing one's head.

Actually, Liu Qing was completely unable to determine whether Xie E was alive or dead. Liu Qing only faintly felt that Xie E still had a trace of energy, and his aura was so weak that it was difficult to detect.

However, it was definitely not by luck that Liu Qing managed to get to the position of the Guard Commander. He discovered that the Ninth Prince's wounds were all on his head, and it was very obvious that he had crashed into a wall.

The Ninth Prince that everyone was talking about was Zhao Ji, the ninth son of Zhao Ji.

Zhao Gou's mother, Madame Wei, was an extremely lowly concubine. Even though he had the words of his mother, his beauty was ordinary, and he was the amorous emperor, Zhao Ji, who had gotten drunk and accompanied by a tiny Palace Maid at the time. Unexpectedly, he was pregnant.

Zhao Gou was exceptionally smart since he was young, and had learnt how to cater to his royal father's preferences. Amongst so many princes like Zhao Ji, his eldest son, Zhao Huan, and his ninth son, Zhao Gou, were the ones who were most fond of him.

The eldest son, Zhao Huan, was open-minded and talented; however, Zhao Gou had been working hard since young because Zhao Ji liked calligraphy, and had already mastered a transcendent calligraphy at such a young age, giving him a faint aura of a great family. Just by this, Zhao Ji gained a whole new level of respect for Zhao Gou.

What was even more coincidental was that the two of them looked extremely similar, to the point where it was difficult to tell the difference between them. Even an experienced eunuch in the palace like Zhang Xin had mistaken Xie E to be Ninth Prince!

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